The world was stunned when eighty-year old Cornelius Gurlitt became a global media superstar in November 2013 on the discovery of over 1,400 artworks in his 1,076 square-foot Munich apartment, valued at around $1.35 billion. Gurlitt became referred to as a guy who never was-he didn’t possess a bank account, never paid tax, never received cultural security. He merely did not can be found. He previously been hard-wired into a lifestyle of shadows and secrecy by his own father a long time before he had inherited his art about Hitler’s Art Thief: Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the Looting of Europe’s Treasures collection built on the spoliation of museums and Jews during Hitler’s Third Reich. The ensuing media frenzy unleashed international calls for restitution, unsettled worldwide relationships, and rocked the art world.

Susan Ronald reveals with this stranger-than-fiction-tale how Hildebrand Gurlitt succeeded in looting in the name of the 3rd Reich, duping the Monuments Guys and the Nazis alike. As an ‘public dealer’ for Hitler and Goebbels, Hildebrand Gurlitt became among the Third Reich’s most prolific art looters. However he stole from Hitler too, allegedly to save modern artwork. Hitler’s Artwork Thief may be the untold story of Hildebrand Gurlitt, who stole more than art-he stole lives, as well.